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@OakPaul @martinmbauer Probably about 10-20% of scientists if not more. Sabine Hossenfelder is a known science communicator who has had this opinion for a while. She is published in the scientific literature.

@OmegaTir @martinmbauer "Many people"? How many? Were they scientists?

Experiments don't "slow discovery", they make discoveries

@cosmicfibretion If you don't understand their position, perhaps you shouldn't comment. Unless your just going for click bait.

Building the most sophisticated and sensitive instruments to measure nature slows progress down now? We’ve entered the Twilight Zone.

@sleepy_devo Supreme Court Justice couldn't define the word woman, but ok.

nobody reasonable actually thinks that trans women metamorphose into biological females you fucking retard. the ask is not "believe that men are women", it's "don't be an asshole". you don't have to like trans people. you do have to leave them alone.

@mysteriouskat Absolutely! These people are despicable. It's like 10% at most and probably way less. 🤣

"I don't hate Jews. Just the Zionist ones. Which account for at least 80% of all Jews and who are all genocide lovers, pedos, Satan worshippers, kid killers, nazis, etc." Can you imagine saying that about 80% of any group and still pretending you are not a racist scumbag?

@mysteriouskat Given no information whatsoever, do you think it's more probable that the CIA is spying on all journalists or none (outside of legitimate investigations)?

Notice how Dave frames the CIA spying on a podcaster as fact. It's not fact. It's, as of now, an unproven allegation by Tucker. One that could be complete nonsense (eg. No investigation exists). True, and a violation of rights. Or a completely valid investigation (btw, journalists have some protections but can't break the law). Right now, none of us have the facts to know either way. Yet people have already taken firm stances to build preemptive narratives. Some are even calling for revolts.

@Leophilius Science is a process, it doesn't do anything. People do things, and people following the process are doing science. People are also flawed and take shortcuts. Almost everyone, including scientists, believe things based on authority. It's unmanageable to prove every little thing.

That's... ...exactly what science does?

@rowanfornow The study found the vast majority of registered voters are US citizens. It doesn't cover election security.

The state literally JUST ran a study on this and found we have some of the most secure elections on earth. Why do Utah Republicans keep ordering studies be done if they're going to ignore them every time???

@nyaraVT This is why you don’t have healthcare btw.. complete lack of understanding of math, proportionality, logic, and critical thinking.

This is why you don’t have healthcare btw.. it’s not trans people it’s not undocumented migrants it’s not refugees this..

@Thinking_Mirror @VraserX It's not that you will get some amount of money. The idea is the cost of most goods and services will basically be zero. This is because the cost of most things ultimately comes from two sources, scarcity and labor. If you shrink labor to zero, then anything abundant is free.

A middle-class UBI sounds noble, but let’s run a simple stress test. The cost of living in New York City is far higher than in Texas. If UBI is meant to provide a middle-class life, who decides the formula? Adjust it by region and you create endless political battles. Keep it flat and purchasing power varies wildly. UBI works best as a floor, not as a full economic system.

Andrew Yang is right. Taxing AI companies will be a cornerstone of a post-labor economy. But we should go further. AI was trained on our data, our writing, our code, our images. Society created the raw material. So society should own a piece of it. Not just taxes. Shared ownership and AI dividends. If AI becomes the most productive technology in history, the wealth it creates should flow back to the people who helped create it.

@micyoung75 Perhaps we shouldn't be so dependent on the Fed for tavel.

Six times in 24 hours. That is how many Democratic bills Senate Republicans blocked to fund TSA, FEMA, CISA, and the Coast Guard while ICE negotiations continued. TSA workers just missed their first full paycheck. An average agent makes just under $50,000 a year. They are required to show up anyway. Hundreds have already quit. Democrats blocked a Republican short-term CR to fund all of DHS including ICE - that is also true and worth saying plainly. Two American citizens were shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Democrats want accountability standards before more ICE funding. That argument has merit. But merit in one argument does not require holding TSA paychecks hostage to win it. Six bills were offered that would have paid the screeners and funded FEMA and kept CISA running while the harder fight continued. Six times Republicans said no. That is the specific choice that put paychecks on the line.

@mrfundman I think that HW4 is about 40% of the fleet, which can run the really good FSD. I assume the take rate is much lower for non-HW4.

Can someone explain how it this possible that we love FSD so much that we don’t even look at a different car brands but FSD take rate between owners only 14%??

@rba3814 @PeterZeihan Unrelated, but in Europe do you say "an European", "a European", or both (perhaps regional). I just noticed your spelling and in the US we go with a European, so I was wondering.

@PeterZeihan About time. I think the US has lost patience with Europe. As an European, I think that we should defend ourselves and not depend on charity of other nations

Macron is proposing that France expand its nuclear deterrent to help shield the entire European Union. This comes at a time when Europe is losing confidence in the United States' security guarantees. Full Newsletter: bit.ly/4cDYaB4

@CraigCastleber1 @robertgraham Where talking about popular culture, not historical references. The point is to push back on the idea that "Democratic principles are good" and all that matters. The average American is generally very pro democracy and never read the constitution.

@OmegaTir @robertgraham Both are equally important. Scalia could have used our Republic but chose our democracy here. Both are correct but our self government is our democracy. Teddy Roosevelt said it best.

"We are a Republic not a Democracy" This is an obtuse statement Trumpists make. For example, when people complain that harsh Voter ID disenfranchises some voters, they say that's okay, because "we are a Republic not a Democracy", we don't need to bend over backwards to make voting as "inclusive" as possible. The same sort of argument applies below. For 700 years, the House of Lords (their equivalent of the Senate) has had heredity peers -- you were born to it. Now they want to change that, because of "democratic principles". One could argue against such democratic principles by arguing "but Britain is a Monarchy not a Democracy", using the same argument as Trumpists. This is silly. Democratic principles are good regardless if your country is a Monarchy or Republic. Just because a country is a Monarchy or a Republic has nothing to do with the value of democratic principles. And all "not a Democracy" means is not a "pure Athenian Democracy". We are in fact a "Democracy" in the modern usage of the word. Even though some texts written by Alexander Hamilton used the word "Democracy" to mean "Athenian Democracy", it's not how the word is used today. Today, the word by itself means "Representative Democracy", and every dictionary, textbook, or history book will confirm we are indeed a "Democracy" despite obtuse Trumpists insisting that the only meaning of the world is how it was used in one Federalist Paper that they didn't even read anyway.

@gnukeith High income in today's standards. I think he's saying even the dirt poor will have access to an upper middle class lifestyle, because automation will make most things worth basically nothing.

I’m just an idiot and not a trillionaire like Musk so what do I know, but if everyone has a universal high income won’t it be less valuable?

@0liviajulianna Good thing they didn't have to win a war to back that paper up.

America literally became an independent country because a bunch of men signed a piece of paper.

@unclebobmartin Literally, no one tell him.

Why doesn’t anyone know what decimate means?

@ilex_ulmus @AnthropicAI Good reason not to have automated killbots and to verify AI plans before implementing.

It’s time to quit, @AnthropicAI employees. You are in over your head.

@MaxEricThiel @scottbuscemi @Tesla_AI Tesla removed setting the max speed in FSD. Autopilot still has it, but I think they're phasing it out autopilot and new cars don't come with it.

@scottbuscemi @Tesla_AI Yes. But Germany has no FSD jet. So my speed limits are for autopilot.

Seriously why is “standard” a guaranteed speeding ticket? @Tesla_AI